Animal Facts - Polar Bear
Polar Bear Habitat
The Arctic is one of the coldest and windiest places on Earth. Summers there are short and the winters are long, dark and freezing cold.
In winter the temperature can drop to minus 50 degrees C (minus 80 F) and it is almost totally dark for twenty four hours a day.
Summer has full daylight and sunshine night and day and the temperature rises to 10 degrees C (50 F). Spring and autumn (fall) have weeks of twilight (dim light).
Polar Bears live all their lives on the ice.
They hunt seals, roaming over the pack ice up to the North Pole and floating on ice floes further south.
In summer they travel to the shoreline of the Arctic countries, and also eat seaweed (kelp), and berries and grass from the tundra.
Other animals living in the Arctic Circle include the Wolf, Arctic Fox, Hare, Reindeer, Musk Ox, Squirrel, Lemming, Snowy Owl and Walrus.
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